Yes,It has been painted in the past.
Its actually very rough! The pictures make it look a whole lot better than it is unfortunately.
I pulled the carpet this morning on to find more rust damage!
The step in the rear floor where the rear seats sit is in poor shape. Large crack across the middle behind the seam,and many rust holes. The front floor pan rust runs up under the dash onto the firewall as far as I could see on the driver and passenger side. I totally expect holes in the lower cowl panel,but wont know until I pull the dash.
I pulled the tops out only to find the t-top frame is rusted bad enough that the lip where seal sits is partially gone. It looks like that will need to be replaced as well.
That's as far as I got before it started raining!
I am totally bummed about the condition of this car.
It has a lot going against it.
Every piece of floor pan has substantial rust damage.
Possibly needs a complete passenger frame rail and bottom part of tower.
I suspect the cowl having damage due to rust on inside of firewall.
T-Top frame needs repair,or replacement.
Seats,carpet ,and door panels are destroyed.
Previous owner is "Trying" to find the title,or any documentation that would help him acquire a replacement title(it went off the road during a divorce
).
Before laying eyes on the car,my original intent was to buy it for parts to finish my 86 Capri since the previous owner was going to scrap it. The outside of the car looks fair,but the years of moss and mildew it was covered in gave me false hopes.lol
I am not sure what I am going to do with the car at this point. I would hate to use it for parts.But it would get me closer to finishing my "solid" 86 Capri 5.0 shell that I have been working on part time for the last couple of years.
Or I could offer it up to someone for what I paid for it that would like restore the car to what it once was,or has a 83 BM that could use it towards that.
The car a this point is much more of a project than I am willing to undertake. If I didn't already have a few other projects going on I might have considered it.
We'll see.
I will get some more pictures of the car once it stops raining.
Chris
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